Problem unsyncing contacts in iTunes with multiple devices

My wife and I each have an iPad and iPhone along and ourkids each have an iPod4 touch. Since we have multiple Apple devices,we sync everything under one Apple ID account using our iMac. We are using OSX Lion on our iMac.
After updating the new iTunes 10.5 and then updating ourdevices to iOS5, our device syncing works great using iCloud and/or our iMac,via WIFI and USB cable. However, a situationoccurred I did not anticipate and I am looking for a possible fix.
My wife and I share contacts on our iPads and iPhones. Before the upgrades, we did not sync the kidsiPods to our contacts. Now using iCloud,the devices sync all the contacts and calendar information. I tried to change the preferences in iTunesto prevent iPods, iPads and iPhones from syncing automatically. I found this option, if applied, removedapplications, music, etc. and left the large "other" file that otherdiscussion threads are mentioning as a problem with the new iTunes/IOS5upgrades.
I suspect I have to restore all devices to factory settingsand then restore each device one at a time with syncing only what I want thedevice to contain. Understanding that thiswill take me a lot of time, I am looking for a possible faster solution or analternative that I fail to see realize.
Please other loyal Apple experts out there, let me in on asecret or two that will help fix this dilemma.
Thank you for your time.

agree. Or just reconfig so they are on the same subnet. I have multiple routers too but they all slave off one to ensure they are on a single subnet.
Apple did this deliberately to stop/discourage people sharing their music library content across the internet which was briefly possible before they put this limitation into the software.

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